Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked Pentagon Papers exposing Vietnam War secrets, dies at 92

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : As much as anyone, Ellsberg also embodied the fall of American idealism in foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s and the upending of the post-World War II consensus that communism, real or suspected, should be opposed worldwide.
54% : He was active in campaigns to prevent nuclear arms proliferation and drew upon his history in government for the 2017 book "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner," in which he included a once-top secret document showing that the U.S. had considered launching nuclear attacks on the Chinese in 1958.
52% :AdvertisementBut like millions of other Americans both in and out of government, he had turned against the yearslong war in Vietnam, particularly the government's claims that the battle was winnable and that a victory for the North Vietnamese over the U.S.-backed South would lead to the spread of communism throughout the region.

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